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‘The Ultimate eBook Experiment: Reading in the Bathtub’
May 21, 2007 | 10:33 am
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By David Rothman
From Margaret Atwood to Arthur C. Clarke, the same guy who imagined e-book-style devices years ago, writers have complained you can’t do E in the bathtub.
Well, Chris Steib compared P and E experiences—a paper copy of Thomas Pynchon‘s The Crying of Lot 49 against text as displayed on a Sony Reader. And the winner? The Reader. Details here (via Print Is Dead).
Of course, Steib could try a $100 used Dell Axim (with a backlit screen) in an OtterBox if he’s really dead serious about watery reading amid the steam of a hot bath. I myself recommend Moby Dick as a test book.
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You can fit just about any PDA inside a Zip lock bag. Zip the bag – presto! Water tight protection for bath tub reading for just a couple of pennies.
Or you could just avoid dropping it in the water. I regularly read in the tub and haven’t dropped a p- or e-book there once in the last 30 years.
[...] Ps. Löysin tätä kirjoitusta viimeistellessäni verkosta eReaderin vesipuolustuksen: sähkökirjaa voi lukea ammeessa, jos käärii lukijan elmukelmuun: ‘The Ultimate eBook Experiment: Reading in the Bathtub’ [...]
[...] durchgeführt. Leider findet sich nur noch hier ein bildlicher Verweis auf sein Projekt, auf das Teleread von hier damals auch verlinkt [...]
Electronic devices like mobile phones and eReaders are highly sensitive to moisture in the air – though the sensitivity varies from model to model. A WELL sealed ziplock would be a must imho.